Great minds think alike?

I wrote a story this week based on a news release from Utica Mayor David Roefaro about a Mayors Against Illegal Guns report. It included this quote from Roefaro:

DAN MINER

I wrote a story this week based on a news release from Utica Mayor David Roefaro about a Mayors Against Illegal Guns report. It included this quote from Roefaro:

"New York state has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, yet more than half of the guns used to commit crimes here come from states with weak gun laws."

The good people at the Syracuse Post-Standard also wrote a short on the report. It included this quote from Syracuse Stephanie Miner:

"New York State has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, yet more than half of the guns used to commit crimes here come from states with weak gun laws."

Not a secret this stuff goes on, but it serves as a reminder of how shallow news releases are. I don't doubt that Roefaro and Miner generally believe the sentiment, but one and possibly both of them had nothing to do with a quote attributed to them, which was then disseminated to readers.